Mark Dodgson, University of Queensland, will be joining us on Thursday 11th December to present an I & E Group External Seminar. Professor Dodgson will present the talk ‘The World’s Greatest Innovator and Entrepreneur’. An outline of the talk can be found at the end of this message.
Lunch will be provided in the Board Room on the first floor from 13.15, and the seminar will take place from 14.00 to 15.00 in the First Floor Lecture Theatre.
A short bio for Mark Dodgson can be found here: http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/researcher/dodgsonmj.html.
Abstract
The World’s Greatest Innovator and Entrepreneur
Imagine, if you will, what indicators you would use to adjudge the world’s greatest innovator and entrepreneur. Establishing an enduring, high profile Company would almost certainly be included. Contributions to substantial, radical product, process, organizational and business model innovation would feature. Some may care to consider broader contributions; say to national infrastructure, the creation of a dynamic industrial cluster, the pioneering of new export markets, or changing government industry policies. Outstanding scientific contributions might conceivably be assessed, for example, election as a Fellow of the Royal Society. And the capacity to bridge the scientific and artistic communities by wholly new approaches to industrial design would be lauded. Perhaps the most important measure of all is the extent to which the person improves the quality of life and work in the society in which they live. This seminar presents an analysis of an individual who meets all these measures and criteria and who holds many lessons for those studying and teaching innovation and entrepreneurship.